Spot the difference: HTC Desire's SLCD versus AMOLED

engadget.com — If you'll recall, a little while back HTC waved its white flag amid AMOLED shortages and made the jump to the readily-available SLCD for its Desire and Nexus One handsets. As a quick recap, here's what CEO Peter Chou said about the swap: "The SLCD displays provide consumers with a comparable visual experience to HTC's current 3.7 inch displays with some additional benefits including battery performance." So, just how "comparable" is the SLCD? To find out, we picked up both flavors of the Desire to perform some comparison tests. Let's start off with the picture quality: what caught our attention straight away was how much sharper SLCD is, but alas, AMOLED is still in the lead for vibrancy and brightness. We dug a little deeper and learned that this has to do with the different pixel arrangements on the two types of panels -- unlike traditional TFT LCD panels, AMOLED's PenTile RGBG (red, green, blue, green, etc.) filter matrix utilizes just two subpixels per pixel instead of three in the same amount of space, thus allowing greater transmittance due to the larger red and blue subpixels. But obviously, the downside is that the pictures aren't as sharp as the denser-packed SLCD. Read on for more! Gallery: Spot the difference: HTC Desire's SLCD versus AMOLEDContinue reading Spot the difference: HTC Desire's SLCD versus AMOLEDSpot the difference: HTC Desire's SLCD versus AMOLED originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | |Email this|Comments Sep 14, 2010 View in Crawl 4